H100 vs L4: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. H100 from $2.52/GPU/hr across 5 providers; L4 from $0.490/GPU/hr across 1 provider. The L4 is 81% cheaper at the entry rate.
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H100 vs L4: common questions
Is the H100 or the L4 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the H100 starts at $2.52/GPU/hr (median $3.29/GPU/hr across 5 providers) and the L4 starts at $0.490/GPU/hr (median $0.490/GPU/hr across 1 provider). The L4 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 81%.
What is the difference between the H100 and the L4?
The H100 has 80 GB of VRAM against the L4's 24 GB; the H100 is a Hopper part and the L4 is Ada Lovelace (compute capability 9.0 vs 8.9); both run BF16, FP8, INT4 workloads in hardware. On price, the H100 lists from $2.52/GPU/hr and the L4 from $0.490/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the H100 and the L4?
5 providers list the H100 (HyperStack, Akash, Massed Compute, RunPod and Verda) and 1 list the L4 (RunPod), across 5 and 1 region respectively. Both are available from RunPod.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the H100 vs the L4?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $2,525 on the H100 and $490 on the L4, a difference of $2,035 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How this comparison is calculated
Every price is normalized to a per-GPU hourly rate using the same pipeline as every other pricing surface on Aquanode, and only the cheapest qualifying offer per provider is shown. A dash means that provider does not currently list that GPU.
Architecture, compute capability and supported precisions come from each vendor's published datasheet for that generation, not from the marketplace feed. This page regenerates at most once per hour.
